2. VozMob Open-source storytelling platform for recent immigrants in Los Angeles to create and publish stories about their community, directly from mobile phones cheap intuitive any phone any network private our way multi-lingual multi-country http://vozmob.net

3. Partnership

5. Google results for “day laborer”

6. daylaborers.org “Do you really want this in your neighborhood?” Day Laborers site in Farmingville, Long Island, NY Photograph courtesy of Dave Drew Top result: anti-immigrant hate site

7. Who are day laborers?

8. Composite Technology Index (Modarres and Pitkin, 2006) Problem: Digital Access Inequality

9. ?

10. Research: mobile phone survey at day laborer centers

11. We surveyed 58 day laborers in 5 worker centers 78% have a cell phone 29% use a pre-paid plan ● Phone expenses vary between $20- $180 /month – with 50% paying less than $50/month We found:

12. What do they use their phones for?

13. What features do they use?

14. Mobile Voices was created to “give voice to the voiceless”

16. Popular Education + Participatory Design

17. - tell the story voice-mail radio - show it. photo-reporting - pictures and sound slide shows - movies Storytelling – with mobiles

18. Storytelling: say it. Voicemail – to –blog Gcast -> RSS call 1-888-65-GCAST (888-654-2278); a voice will ask you for the number of the phone you registered with; enter 888-8-VOZMOB (888-886-9662); it will ask you for a 4 digit pin; enter 8888 record something. then press # [all in english]. Gizmo -> email -> drupal one number, message in Spanish, post to blog Next step: voipdrupalvoipdrupal

19. Storytelling: show it.

20. Storytelling: narrated pictures, slide shows, videos

21. Free / Open Source Software + Creative Commons Content

22. System Features

23. Post from (almost) any phone Cheap: any phone or provider, no data plan needed, pre-paid ok, MMS bundles Easy: voice calls, sms, or mms

24. vozmob.net CMS: edit remix tag translate share geo-locate etc.

25. Send to phones registration alerts groups msg of the day how-to etc…

26. export print open APIs Cross-platform

28. Maps + GIS

29. Participatory graphic design

30. codesigned site theme

31. research

32. suppliers roll-out technology users appropriate suppliers re-claim users adopt reject usersbaroquize creolize cannibalize suppliers co-opt adapt block

33. suppliers roll-out technology users appropriate

34. suppliers roll-out technology users appropriate what is possible with cheap technology phones as gateway technology evaluate participatory design process storytelling’s role in community building assess impact (individual, IDEPSCA, beyond) examine surprises

35. Using one's own phone (not provided by carrier) - Unlock - Settings: - Dowload from carrier – not always possible - Dowload from device maker – few offer that - User entered – some phones don't allow that - MMS-to-email gateways – non standard Media as attachments Send pointer to storage space Gateways non symmetrical ► Missed innovation potential MMS as transitional technology, building block to others Compare with SMS: twitter, frontlineSMS, ushahidi MMS as closed technology

36. open research

37. http://vozmob.nethttp://vozmob.net – main project site Research/coordination: http://blog.vozmob.net - research blog http://wiki.vozmob.net - project wiki http://class.vozmob.net - USC class wiki http://tags.vozmob.net - del.icio.us tags for ‘vozmob’ http://list.vozmob.net - project mailing list http://devlist.vozmob.net - development mailing list http://blog.vozmob.net http://wiki.vozmob.net http://class.vozmob.net http://tags.vozmob.net http://list.vozmob.net http://devlist.vozmob.net Technology development: http://dev.vozmob.net http://dev.vozmob.net - bugs, features requests (redmine) http://code.vozmob.net - code repository (gitorious) http://code.vozmob.net irc://chat.freenode.net/vozmobirc://chat.freenode.net/vozmob - weekly chats http://sandbox.vozmob.nethttp://sandbox.vozmob.net - test site

38. Supporters

39. credits vozmob team Steve Anderson, Natalie Arellano, François Bar, Melissa Brough, Mark Burdett, Adolfo Cisneros, Sasha Costanza-Chock, Nidhi Dewan, Pedro Espinosa, Amanda Garces, Maria De Lourdes Gonzalez, Carmen Gonzales, Chris Guitarte, Josh Haglund, Philip Javellana, Crispin Jimenez, Charlotte Lapsansky, Manuel Mancia, Gabriela Rodriguez, Marcos Rodriguez, Benjamin Stokes, Cara Wallis,… graphics adapted from originals by Rini Templeton (riniart.org)

40. ¡Gracias!

42. Just a few of many stories

43. http://vozmob.net/es/node/687 “Jacqueline” MADELOU

44. “Jornaleros” ADOLFO http://vozmob.net/en/node/2837

45. http://vozmob.net/en/node/6132 “Green Gardeners in Action” RANFERI

46. http://vozmob.net/en/node/6534 “Graffiti: Social Phenomenon” MARCOS

47. http://vozmob.net/en/node/6840 “Hands” MANUEL